The question with an avian bird flu pandemic is not should babies 
continue to be breastfed, but will their mothers survive to breastfeed 
them? This is an area where LCs and anyone else for that matter would 
do well to become educated about holistic treatments as there are no 
anti-viral drugs on the market that have been proven effective. There 
are some holistic treatments that I would personally use, including 
homeopathy, but the first thing that occurs to me is that the mother 
might to well to drink her own milk. Human milk has that lovely quality 
that it enhances the immune system (NOT what you want to do once you 
have the flu, but ceetainly as a preventative), and it also has 
anti-viral properties--the only useful startegy with this flu is to 
kill the virus.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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